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Page 124
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled , to think she ' d get off
at Simbirsk and I ' d be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart . But there
were still two days before Simbirsk , so I counted the hours and hung on .
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled , to think she ' d get off
at Simbirsk and I ' d be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart . But there
were still two days before Simbirsk , so I counted the hours and hung on .
Page 154
... all wanting to be clerks at headquarters , or mend soldiers ' trousers , instead of
fighting for the peasants of the world and dying as heroes on the battlefield ! Look
at the egg - head bastards all after cushy jobs to which they have no right !
... all wanting to be clerks at headquarters , or mend soldiers ' trousers , instead of
fighting for the peasants of the world and dying as heroes on the battlefield ! Look
at the egg - head bastards all after cushy jobs to which they have no right !
Page 157
Its existence seemed a fantasy , a nightmare . At any moment , Antoshchenko
could shoot any one of us down . Each man ' s life hung on what he might take it
into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene
...
Its existence seemed a fantasy , a nightmare . At any moment , Antoshchenko
could shoot any one of us down . Each man ' s life hung on what he might take it
into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene
...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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